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Low Poly modeling: Uses: - Games and Virtual Environments (with various LOD –levels of detail) - Web 3d content (retailers, web shows, etc) - Hi-rez animation as “stand-in” geometry, scene planning, rigging component, such as wrap deformer or a chip set. - A stage in modeling a hi-rez model. Low-poly structure allows to determine general proportions of a high-rez object and surface flow in the most efficient way, by using the minimal amount of faces. Helpful Form Analysis Steps Every smooth polygon model can be reduced to a simplified low poly structure. One can think of this process as a reverse of Smoothing Operation: a curvature represented by several faces is reduced to flat area represented by one. 1. Class Folder: FormAndShape.pdf 2. Looking at Form and Structure 3. Cross Contour Sketching 4. Cross Contours = Object Wireframe Simplified Cross Contours = Low Poly Wireframe Modeling Concepts: Low poly, primitive-up modeling principle. Mirroring geometry. Tools: Append Polygon Extrude (this operation can lead to the mistake below, if extrusion is made twice, without offsetting face in the first operation) To remedy: use Mesh/Cleanup/Delete Faces with Zero Geometry Area Split Polygon Combine Tools Merge Vertices Merge Edges Snap to Grid Preparation Display/Heads Up Display/Polycount Edit mesh/Keep Faces Together ChickenTutorial.htm - in Workspace/Courses/AC751_Berezina_W09/Resources/Poly/chicken Homework 1 Proposal is due 01/21 10am.

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